Mark 12:1
Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
2 At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
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- BSB
- Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- KJV
- And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
- WEB
- He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
- ASV
- And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.
- DARBY
- And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round [it] and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
- BLB
- And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, and he placed around [it] a fence and dug a wine vat and built a tower, and he rented it out to farmers and traveled abroad.
- ÅB
- Og han begynte å tale til dem i lignelser: En mann plantet en vingård, og satte et gjerde omkring den og gravde en vinperse og bygget et tårn, og så leide han den ut til vingårdsmenn og dro utenlands.
- OTB
- Jesus begynte å tale til dem i lignelser: "En mann plantet en vingård. Han satte opp et gjerde rundt den, gravde en grop for vinpressen og bygde et tårn. Så leide han den ut til noen bønder og dro på reise.
- B1930
- Og han begynte å tale til dem i lignelser: En mann plantet en vingård, og satte et gjerde omkring den og gravde en vinperse og bygget et tårn, og så leide han den ut til vingårdsmenn og drog utenlands.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 5:1–4
I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
Read in contextMark 13:34
It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 8:11–12
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
Read in contextMark 4:2
And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,
Read in contextPsalms 80:8–16
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
Read in contextMatthew 25:14
For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
Read in contextRomans 11:17–24
Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
Read in contextMark 4:33–34
With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.
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